Queen Camilla saw photo of Harry, Meghan’s son Archie for first time via phone — thanks to a royal photog

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did an interview with the Sun and said that Archie’s birth in May 2019 was “a disaster” because Harry and Meghan Markle took a different approach than other royals when it came to revealing their oldest child’s arrival.“When William was born, and Harry was born, and George, Charlotte, Louis, we got great pictures outside the hospital,” Edwards, 83, recalled. “William and Catherine especially — they made such an effort to show the whole world their baby.”Edwards said that Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, kept Archie’s birth from the British press. “Harry’s baby Archie was almost teething before we found out he was born,” he said, exaggerating. “We were led to believe that she was going into labor at 2 o’clock when the baby had been born many hours earlier.

We were led to believe it was going to be a home birth and it was at a hospital. The whole thing was just stage managed to suit them.”Edwards then recalled how he was on a royal tour in Germany with some of Harry’s family members — including Camilla, 76 — when Archie was born.“I remember showing Camilla in I think Munich the first pictures of Archie that was taken by the press,” Edwards said. “I showed her on my phone and that was the first time she saw him.

It was difficult times.”Those events transpired years before Camilla became queen consort when King Charles, 75, took over the monarchy from the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September 2022.Now, Camilla and Charles are estranged from Harry and Meghan, who quit their royal duties in 2020 and live in Montecito, Calif., with Archie and their 2-year-old daughter, Lilibet.In his 2023 memoir “Spare,” Harry went off about his stepmother and revealed that he begged his father not to marry Camilla.